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2015-08-19Documentation/git-push.txt: document when --signed may failLibravatar Dave Borowitz1-1/+3
Like --atomic, --signed will fail if the server does not advertise the necessary capability. In addition, it requires gpg on the client side. Signed-off-by: Dave Borowitz <dborowitz@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-07-15Git 2.4.6Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-1/+25
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-07-15Merge branch 'mm/describe-doc' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Docfix. * mm/describe-doc: Documentation/describe: improve one-line summary
2015-07-15Merge branch 'fk/doc-format-patch-vn' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Docfix. * fk/doc-format-patch-vn: doc: format-patch: fix typo
2015-06-25Git 2.4.5Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-1/+30
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-06-25Merge branch 'sg/merge-summary-config' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano3-16/+12
Doc updates. * sg/merge-summary-config: Documentation: include 'merge.branchdesc' for merge and config as well
2015-06-25Merge branch 'sb/pack-protocol-mention-smart-http' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+3
Doc updates. * sb/pack-protocol-mention-smart-http: Documentation/technical/pack-protocol: mention http as possible protocol
2015-06-25Merge branch 'jk/color-diff-plain-is-context' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+2
"color.diff.plain" was a misnomer; give it 'color.diff.context' as a more logical synonym. * jk/color-diff-plain-is-context: diff.h: rename DIFF_PLAIN color slot to DIFF_CONTEXT diff: accept color.diff.context as a synonym for "plain"
2015-06-16Git 2.4.4Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-1/+37
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-06-16Merge branch 'sb/submodule-doc-intro' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-28/+22
* sb/submodule-doc-intro: submodule doc: reorder introductory paragraphs
2015-06-16Merge branch 'sb/glossary-submodule' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+16
* sb/glossary-submodule: glossary: add "remote", "submodule", "superproject"
2015-06-16Merge branch 'mc/commit-doc-grammofix' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Doc grammar fix. * mc/commit-doc-grammofix: Documentation/git-commit: grammofix
2015-06-16Merge branch 'jk/http-backend-deadlock' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+9
Communication between the HTTP server and http_backend process can lead to a dead-lock when relaying a large ref negotiation request. Diagnose the situation better, and mitigate it by reading such a request first into core (to a reasonable limit). * jk/http-backend-deadlock: http-backend: spool ref negotiation requests to buffer t5551: factor out tag creation http-backend: fix die recursion with custom handler
2015-06-16Merge branch 'mm/log-format-raw-doc' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano2-2/+14
Clarify that "log --raw" and "log --format=raw" are unrelated concepts. * mm/log-format-raw-doc: Documentation/log: clarify sha1 non-abbreviation in log --raw Documentation/log: clarify what --raw means
2015-06-16Documentation/describe: improve one-line summaryLibravatar Matthieu Moy1-1/+1
git describe does not show 'the most recent tag that is reachable from a commit', but a descriptive name based on this tag. Fix the description to reflect that. Suggested-by: Albert Netymk <albertnetymk@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-06-10doc: format-patch: fix typoLibravatar Frans Klaver1-1/+1
reroll count documentation states that v<n> will be pretended to the filename. Judging by the examples that should have been 'prepended'. Signed-off-by: Frans Klaver <fransklaver@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-06-05Git 2.4.3Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-1/+78
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-06-05Merge branch 'ps/doc-packfile-vs-pack-file' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano3-9/+9
Doc consistency updates. * ps/doc-packfile-vs-pack-file: doc: fix inconsistent spelling of "packfile" pack-protocol.txt: fix insconsistent spelling of "packfile" git-unpack-objects.txt: fix inconsistent spelling of "packfile" git-verify-pack.txt: fix inconsistent spelling of "packfile"
2015-06-05Merge branch 'fg/document-commit-message-stripping' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-4/+7
* fg/document-commit-message-stripping: Documentation: clarify how "git commit" cleans up the edited log message
2015-06-05Merge branch 'pt/pull-ff-vs-merge-ff' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
The pull.ff configuration was supposed to override the merge.ff configuration, but it didn't. * pt/pull-ff-vs-merge-ff: pull: parse pull.ff as a bool or string pull: make pull.ff=true override merge.ff
2015-06-05Merge branch 'ja/tutorial-asciidoctor-fix' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
A literal block in the tutorial had lines with unequal lengths to delimit it from the rest of the document, which choke GitHub's AsciiDoc renderer. * ja/tutorial-asciidoctor-fix: doc: fix unmatched code fences
2015-06-05Merge branch 'jk/stripspace-asciidoctor-fix' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+3
A literal block in the tutorial had lines with unequal lengths to delimit it from the rest of the document, which choke GitHub's AsciiDoc renderer. * jk/stripspace-asciidoctor-fix: doc: fix unmatched code fences in git-stripspace
2015-06-05Merge branch 'jk/asciidoc-markup-fix' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano19-102/+107
Various documentation mark-up fixes to make the output more consistent in general and also make AsciiDoctor (an alternative formatter) happier. * jk/asciidoc-markup-fix: doc: convert AsciiDoc {?foo} to ifdef::foo[] doc: put example URLs and emails inside literal backticks doc: drop backslash quoting of some curly braces doc: convert \--option to --option doc/add: reformat `--edit` option doc: fix length of underlined section-title doc: fix hanging "+"-continuation doc: fix unquoted use of "{type}" doc: fix misrendering due to `single quote'
2015-06-05Merge branch 'pt/xdg-config-path' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+33
Code clean-up for xdg configuration path support. * pt/xdg-config-path: path.c: remove home_config_paths() git-config: replace use of home_config_paths() git-commit: replace use of home_config_paths() credential-store.c: replace home_config_paths() with xdg_config_home() dir.c: replace home_config_paths() with xdg_config_home() attr.c: replace home_config_paths() with xdg_config_home() path.c: implement xdg_config_home() t0302: "unreadable" test needs POSIXPERM t0302: test credential-store support for XDG_CONFIG_HOME git-credential-store: support XDG_CONFIG_HOME git-credential-store: support multiple credential files
2015-06-02Documentation/technical/pack-protocol: mention http as possible protocolLibravatar Stefan Beller1-3/+3
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-29glossary: add "remote", "submodule", "superproject"Libravatar Stefan Beller1-0/+16
Noticed-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org> Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-28submodule doc: reorder introductory paragraphsLibravatar Stefan Beller1-28/+22
It's better to start the man page with a description of what submodules actually are, instead of saying what they are not. Reorder the paragraphs such that - the first short paragraph introduces the submodule concept, - the second paragraph highlights the usage of the submodule command, - the third paragraph giving background information, and finally - the fourth paragraph discusing alternatives such as subtrees and remotes, which we don't want to be confused with. This ordering deepens the knowledge on submodules with each paragraph. First the basic questions like "How/what" will be answered, while the underlying concepts will be taught at a later time. Making sure it is not confused with subtrees and remotes is not really enhancing knowledge of submodules itself, but rather painting the big picture of git concepts, so you could also argue to have it as the second paragraph. Personally I think this may confuse readers, specially newcomers though. Additionally to reordering the paragraphs, they have been slightly reworded. Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-28Documentation: include 'merge.branchdesc' for merge and config as wellLibravatar SZEDER Gábor3-16/+12
'merge.branchdesc' is only mentioned in the docs of 'git fmt-merge-msg'. The description of 'merge.log' is already duplicated between 'merge-config.txt' and 'git-fmt-merge-msg.txt'; instead of duplicating the description of another config variable, extract the descriptions of both of these variables from 'git-fmt-merge-msg.txt' into a separate file and include it there and in 'merge-config.txt'. Leave 'merge.summary' only in git-fmt-merge-msg.txt, as it is marked as deprecated. Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-27diff: accept color.diff.context as a synonym for "plain"Libravatar Jeff King1-1/+2
The term "plain" is a bit ambiguous; let's allow the more specific "context", but keep "plain" around for compatibility. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-26Git 2.4.2Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-1/+47
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-26Merge branch 'jc/hash-object' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+8
"hash-object --literally" introduced in v2.2 was not prepared to take a really long object type name. * jc/hash-object: write_sha1_file(): do not use a separate sha1[] array t1007: add hash-object --literally tests hash-object --literally: fix buffer overrun with extra-long object type git-hash-object.txt: document --literally option
2015-05-25Merge branch 'jk/http-backend-deadlock-2.3' into jk/http-backend-deadlockLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+9
* jk/http-backend-deadlock-2.3: http-backend: spool ref negotiation requests to buffer t5551: factor out tag creation http-backend: fix die recursion with custom handler
2015-05-25Merge branch 'jk/http-backend-deadlock-2.2' into jk/http-backend-deadlock-2.3Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+9
* jk/http-backend-deadlock-2.2: http-backend: spool ref negotiation requests to buffer t5551: factor out tag creation http-backend: fix die recursion with custom handler
2015-05-25http-backend: spool ref negotiation requests to bufferLibravatar Jeff King1-0/+9
When http-backend spawns "upload-pack" to do ref negotiation, it streams the http request body to upload-pack, who then streams the http response back to the client as it reads. In theory, git can go full-duplex; the client can consume our response while it is still sending the request. In practice, however, HTTP is a half-duplex protocol. Even if our client is ready to read and write simultaneously, we may have other HTTP infrastructure in the way, including the webserver that spawns our CGI, or any intermediate proxies. In at least one documented case[1], this leads to deadlock when trying a fetch over http. What happens is basically: 1. Apache proxies the request to the CGI, http-backend. 2. http-backend gzip-inflates the data and sends the result to upload-pack. 3. upload-pack acts on the data and generates output over the pipe back to Apache. Apache isn't reading because it's busy writing (step 1). This works fine most of the time, because the upload-pack output ends up in a system pipe buffer, and Apache reads it as soon as it finishes writing. But if both the request and the response exceed the system pipe buffer size, then we deadlock (Apache blocks writing to http-backend, http-backend blocks writing to upload-pack, and upload-pack blocks writing to Apache). We need to break the deadlock by spooling either the input or the output. In this case, it's ideal to spool the input, because Apache does not start reading either stdout _or_ stderr until we have consumed all of the input. So until we do so, we cannot even get an error message out to the client. The solution is fairly straight-forward: we read the request body into an in-memory buffer in http-backend, freeing up Apache, and then feed the data ourselves to upload-pack. But there are a few important things to note: 1. We limit the in-memory buffer to prevent an obvious denial-of-service attack. This is a new hard limit on requests, but it's unlikely to come into play. The default value is 10MB, which covers even the ridiculous 100,000-ref negotation in the included test (that actually caps out just over 5MB). But it's configurable on the off chance that you don't mind spending some extra memory to make even ridiculous requests work. 2. We must take care only to buffer when we have to. For pushes, the incoming packfile may be of arbitrary size, and we should connect the input directly to receive-pack. There's no deadlock problem here, though, because we do not produce any output until the whole packfile has been read. For upload-pack's initial ref advertisement, we similarly do not need to buffer. Even though we may generate a lot of output, there is no request body at all (i.e., it is a GET, not a POST). [1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/269020 Test-adapted-from: Dennis Kaarsemaker <dennis@kaarsemaker.net> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-22doc: fix inconsistent spelling of "packfile"Libravatar Patrick Steinhardt2-3/+3
Fix remaining instances where "pack-file" is used instead of "packfile". Some places remain where we still use "pack-file", This is the case when we explicitly refer to a file with a ".pack" extension as opposed to a data source providing a pack data stream. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-20Documentation/log: clarify sha1 non-abbreviation in log --rawLibravatar Matthieu Moy1-1/+4
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-19Documentation/git-commit: grammofixLibravatar Michael Coleman1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Michael Coleman <michael.karl.coleman@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-18Documentation/log: clarify what --raw meansLibravatar Matthieu Moy1-1/+10
There are several "raw formats", and describing --raw as "Generate the raw format" in the documentation for git-log seems to imply that it generates the raw *log* format. Clarify the wording by saying "raw diff format" explicitly, and make a special-case for "git log": "git log --raw" does not just change the format, it shows something which is not shown by default. Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-18pull: make pull.ff=true override merge.ffLibravatar Paul Tan1-1/+1
Since b814da8 (pull: add pull.ff configuration, 2014-01-15), running git-pull with the configuration pull.ff=false or pull.ff=only is equivalent to passing --no-ff and --ff-only to git-merge. However, if pull.ff=true, no switch is passed to git-merge. This leads to the confusing behavior where pull.ff=false or pull.ff=only is able to override merge.ff, while pull.ff=true is unable to. Fix this by adding the --ff switch if pull.ff=true, and add a test to catch future regressions. Furthermore, clarify in the documentation that pull.ff overrides merge.ff. Signed-off-by: Paul Tan <pyokagan@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-17pack-protocol.txt: fix insconsistent spelling of "packfile"Libravatar Patrick Steinhardt1-3/+3
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-17git-unpack-objects.txt: fix inconsistent spelling of "packfile"Libravatar Patrick Steinhardt1-2/+2
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-17git-verify-pack.txt: fix inconsistent spelling of "packfile"Libravatar Patrick Steinhardt1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-14doc: convert AsciiDoc {?foo} to ifdef::foo[]Libravatar Jeff King1-2/+6
The former seems to just be syntactic sugar for the latter. And as it's sugar that AsciiDoctor doesn't understand, it would be nice to avoid it. Since there are only two spots, and the resulting source is not significantly harder to read, it's worth doing. Note that this does slightly affect the generated HTML (it has an extra newline), but the rendered result for both HTML and docbook should be the same (since the newline is not syntactically significant there). Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-13Git 2.4.1Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-1/+42
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-12doc: put example URLs and emails inside literal backticksLibravatar Jeff King3-5/+5
This makes sure that AsciiDoc does not turn them into links. Regular AsciiDoc does not catch these cases, but AsciiDoctor does treat them as links. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-12doc: drop backslash quoting of some curly bracesLibravatar Jeff King1-7/+7
Text like "{foo}" triggers an AsciiDoc attribute; we have to write "\{foo}" to suppress this. But when the "foo" is not a syntactically valid attribute, we can skip the quoting. This makes the source nicer to read, and looks better under Asciidoctor. With AsciiDoc itself, this patch produces no changes. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-12doc: convert \--option to --optionLibravatar Jeff King11-80/+80
Older versions of AsciiDoc would convert the "--" in "--option" into an emdash. According to 565e135 (Documentation: quote double-dash for AsciiDoc, 2011-06-29), this is fixed in AsciiDoc 8.3.0. According to bf17126, we don't support anything older than 8.4.1 anyway, so we no longer need to worry about quoting. Even though this does not change the output at all, there are a few good reasons to drop the quoting: 1. It makes the source prettier to read. 2. We don't quote consistently, which may be confusing when reading the source. 3. Asciidoctor does not like the quoting, and renders a literal backslash. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-12doc/add: reformat `--edit` optionLibravatar Jeff King1-1/+2
All of the other options in the list put short and long as two separate headings. We can also drop the backslashing of `--`. It isn't used elsewhere and is unnecessary for modern asciidoc (plus it confuses asciidoctor). Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-12doc: fix length of underlined section-titleLibravatar Jeff King1-1/+1
In AsciiDoc, it is OK to say: this is my title ------------------------- but AsciiDoctor is more strict. Let's match the underline to the title (which also makes the source prettier to read). The output from AsciiDoc is the same either way. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-12doc: fix hanging "+"-continuationLibravatar Jeff King1-3/+3
In list content that wants to continue to a second paragraph, the "+" continuation and subsequent paragraph need to be left-aligned. Otherwise AsciiDoc seems to insert only a linebreak. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>